Might want to check your /etc/php.ini and make sure you have the "extension=mysql.so" uncommented (restart Apache if you make a change). Also might want to check over the [MySQL] section. And to ...

If PHP's MySQL library supports it, you should be using bound variables. Gets rid of the SQL-injection worries.

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